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Some pills and powders can actually cause more pain than gain. But there's one doctor turned investigator who's taking on sketchy manufacturers one false claim at a time. FIRST IT [...]

Byline: Embroidery by DIANE MEYER by STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Photographs by COLE WILSON HOW A HACKER SHAMED AND HUMILIATED HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN A SMALL NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN. AND HOW THEY [...]

It may be day 253 of Beth Comstock's unemployment, but her only concession to that state is a pair of fuzzy slippers. She's been up writing down everything from dreams [...]

The elevator doors open on the 44th floor, and Mitch Free exits, turning left into the raw office space of a towering Shanghai building. There are cement floors, exposed piping, [...]

IT WAS A SLUSHY February morning in 2003, and Scott Griffith was on his way to his new job as CEO of Zipcar. But first, he had an early errand [...]

Even before he wrote this lette, Chris Redd had never had much of a taste for authority or for other people's restrictions. Sure, it was aggressive to promise that he […]

TIM WESTERGREN IS DUE TO TAKE THE STAGE IN AN HOUR, yet he seems half asleep. His shoulders are rolled forward, his hair floppy and unbrushed, and he's wearing loose […]

XR-3M9 #446 XCOR AEROSPACE This is a methane-fueled rocket engine typically used as a thruster for steering. Above the earth's atmosphere, aerodynamic controls no longer work because there's no air […]

This family-business story starts, as many American stories do, with an immigrant. The details are hazy; it was 1905, or maybe 1910, and he came because he was Jewish and […]

A START-UP'S BUSINESS PLAN is kind of like a movie trailer. Everybody knows that it is a cursory and sensationalized representation of something that would make much more sense viewed […]

THINK, FOR A moment, about how you behave on vacation: You're relaxed, you're open to trying new things, and you're spending freely. In other words, as more marketers are realizing, […]

Blasts of horns erupt from the gridlocked streets in Istanbul's Mecidiyekoy neighborhood, a business district crammed with 1970s-era concrete buildings. Men in suits and women in fractured-streets-be-damned stilettos, or, infrequently, [...]

SOME ENTREPRENEURS are all about sales. What's not to love? You're out there showing the world this thing you've thrown your life into. Plus, you get the indulgence of room […]

Ariane Daguin was a 20-year-old student on loan to the U.S. from her family a Gascon chefs when she met George Faison, a mustachioed Texan with a temper and a [...]

What was her company missing? * Susan, Bowman asked herself that as soon as she plopped into her chair at Tri-anim, a medical-supplies distributor in Sylmar California. It was two [...]

AS HE LAY AT THE BOTTOM of a hole nine fathoms deep, Baron Munchausen thought he was a goner. Then, so the tale goes, he realized he could hoist himself [...]

At the sparkling white offices of Method in San Francisco, sunlight is shafting through bottles of red, green, purple, and blue liquid, the cleaning products that Method sells. It should [...]

Irene Cohen CEO, FlexCorp Systems Offshoring is no longer just about price. Tom Steinberg Founder, Staples Target your customers when they're making a decision. Mary Meehan Co-founder, Iconoculture Make friends [...]

Business Cycle Marcelo Paladini CEO, Cynergy Data, New York City NO, 489 As hordes of New Yorkers pour into subways, crowd into the bus, or shuffle down the streets for [...]

The article discusses the lawsuit by Ann Lai, who quit her high-profile job and sounded an alarm about bad behavior in the technical industry, whose case was finally settled in 2020.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTYBy Ramona Ausubel308 pp. Riverhead, $27. Ausubel's new novel begins in 1976 with a married couple, Fern and Edgar, romping with their kids around [...]

The article presents the discussion on number of transgender entrepreneurs in the U.S including harassment and resistance from the companies.

Starbucks's chief operating officer started her career as a scientist before rising through the leadership ranks of Kimberly-Clark and Walmart to become president and CEO of Sam's Club. Based in [...]

I TAKE YOU By Eliza Kennedy 308 pp. Crown Publishers. $24. Should a woman have sex before marriage? The answer, according to ''I Take You,'' a salty, lively first novel [...]

Gordon 'Butch' Stewart's voice is deep and slow, and he speaks with melodic phrasing, suggesting the sun-soaked climate of his native Jamaica, where he started Sandals Resorts, in 1981. Today, [...]

Gert Boyle, chairman Columbia Sportswear Gert Boyle's family fled Nazi Germany when she was 13--reason enough for her to hope her path as an adult would be smooth. For a [...]

MARC SHUMAN COULDN'T BEAR to open another e-mail. Hunkered down in his office in Syosset, New York, the president of GarageTek was reviewing the financial statements of his company's 57 [...]

AT THE TENDER age of 31, Praveen Suthrum would already seem to have achieved the American dream. He came to the United States from India in 1999 to work as [...]

His pals in the liquor business thought Sidney Frank was crazy when he started importing a German herbal elixir, called Jagermeister, in 1972. The drink was selling about 500 cases [...]

AT AGE 64, Bob Drucker's living the dream. He and his wife live in a tidy five-bedroom house on Long Island with a backyard the size of a football field. [...]